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Reddit troll apologizes for trump CNN gif/all those racist remarks
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Lol this is not even close to accurate
Following up on a person who made a tweet the white house officially published seems like a reasonable lead to investigate, especially given his history of posting.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I would be surprised if this piece of shit was actually 15. With some exceptions, they generally won't print the information of a minor.
If he was underage, I imagine they would have mentioned it as part of why they weren't revealing his identity.
If he was underage, I imagine they would have mentioned it as part of why they weren't revealing his identity.
Because it brings into light Donald Trump's media consumption habits once again. We knew that he ventured into the_donald during the election but it turns out that his Whitehouse probably still ventures into the_donald.
And when said person is pretty much calling for the extermination of people affiliated with a certain religion, it becomes a whole less funny that the President of the United States and his Whitehouse might be consuming such material.
I mean, people should be concerned about this but apparently its just a harmless funny animated .gif to a lot of people.
Right. the claim that he's fifteen sounds like it's one of those alternative facts to make people who glance at the situation think CNN is trying to make a kid's life hell.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Which one of the people on twitter you follow did you get this likely fake 15 year old scoop from? Mike Cernovich or Richard Spencer?
When you're trying to go to bat for someone who spammed nigger all over reddit and talked about stabbing minorities, you gotta get some creative licensing.
ChainedMaster
Banned
That makes more sense. In that case it could be exposing what media the president goes on. But I mean anyone could have posted that tweet and it could have been seen in any forum. I mean hell how don't you know it wasn't posted on Gamefaqs before?
Matrix XII
Member
What is with the sympathy for this guy?
I mean, he is a racist piece of human refuse. This guy was calling for hundreds of thousands of brown people's deaths among other disgusting things. These are the people that need to be exposed.
It's really sad and disturbing to see the lack of accountability, especially with online behaviour. People are used to hiding behind their keyboard and spewing hate and filth. This is toxic and infecting our society.
It's definitely not helping that the POTUS is the least accountable person I've ever seen in my life. It's shameful.
I mean, he is a racist piece of human refuse. This guy was calling for hundreds of thousands of brown people's deaths among other disgusting things. These are the people that need to be exposed.
It's really sad and disturbing to see the lack of accountability, especially with online behaviour. People are used to hiding behind their keyboard and spewing hate and filth. This is toxic and infecting our society.
It's definitely not helping that the POTUS is the least accountable person I've ever seen in my life. It's shameful.
"....and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again***"
***under the same username
It's exposing material that was officially published by the white house. That is why this is being followed up on.
It's a soft form of defense for racists, that's all it is.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Scavino has a pattern.
The thing with Donald Trump is that he's pretty timely with his tweets so you know exactly what media he's been consuming. I believe that they traced that animated gif to a recent post on the_donald so it wasn't really widely circulated around the internet yet.
ChainedMaster
Banned
I don't think there is any sympathy for that guy except from the alt-right. Anyone else who's expressing shock probably doesn't understand why an organization like CNN would spend resources to track down a guy who made a joke gif.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
The same network that hired Corey Lewandowski mind you. They shouldn't be getting anyone's sympathy either, it just so happens the other party in this matter is that much more indefensible.
MisterNoisy
Member
Not 'going to bat' for anyone. It's just hilarious that we're at a point where a multi-million dollar media corporation feels the need to directly address some completely random Reddit/channer schlub. That's the hilarious part of this whole thing - that we've hit a point where the schlub is deemed a credible threat to a news company.
Like I said - entertaining, if not enlightening times.
You're still not remotely close to being accurate.
lol this is normal. This is what happens when the fucking President of the United States, you know the most powerful man in the world, does something.
Anything having to do with the President is not a game. Journalist will jump on anything he does or says if they have a lead. It's amazing that some of you people really don't understand the gravity of Cheeto's words and actions.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
But which one was it? Cernovich or Spencer?
It's on purpose.
Incredible. People really don't get it.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I love how the right is trying to spin this as blackmail when CNN did this guy the biggest favor he'll ever get in his entire life.
I bet one of them will find his information and release it themselves to try and make CNN look bad.
I bet one of them will find his information and release it themselves to try and make CNN look bad.
You have to love the implied fake news angle the "enlightening" comment was going for at the end of your post here.
Matrix XII
Member
Yeah I suppose you're right. It's just amazing to me that anyone could defend someone like that.
Oh, he gets it alright.
MisterNoisy
Member
Not gonna lie - what do you mean by the bolded? As far as I can tell, our lunatic president retweeted a gif and everyone lost their minds and CNN made the gif's author a story. In all seriousness, what are the other angles?
Ah yes, the part where we feign ignorance on the topic or obscure what's happening to get around the actual conversation. It's like clockwork with these people here isn't it?
Btw, this was covered and gone over...on the very page you posted this.
This
CNN fucked up.
The same as many of you I love seeing a shitty person being fucked over, but consider that it's still shitty for CNN to say they will publish the name if he doesn't behave.
And the usual suspects are angry, and I think they should be.
The issue is how they want to go against CNN, we know the modus operandi.
The same as many of you I love seeing a shitty person being fucked over, but consider that it's still shitty for CNN to say they will publish the name if he doesn't behave.
And the usual suspects are angry, and I think they should be.
The issue is how they want to go against CNN, we know the modus operandi.
shawnbuddy
Member
Sorry man. You'll have to go back to t_d and shamefacedly tell them "Op Infiltrate Neofag" failed.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
They said they did not make an agreement with the person to not publish his name and that they specifically reserve the right to if it possibly becomes relevant.
No doubt the guy is in a shitty spot, but Donald Trump is as much responsible for putting him there as CNN is. Trump actually had the official White House twitter, a thing that will be preserved as part of his presidency, tweet his content out.
MisterNoisy
Member
All I see is a random internet shitposter doing edgy shit 'for the lulz'. The only difference between this and mountains of /pol or T_D nonsense that transpires daily is that his shitposting got retweeted by a famous lunatic.
I'm just finding it amusing that this is where news and political discourse is now - the goddamned president is retweeting /pol shitposts FFS, the media attacking the author of the post because the president doesn't give a fuck and everyone else losing their damned minds around the periphery.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
You're trying too hard playa
"Guns are a N***er repellant"
This is what you're defending.
Think about your life.
Everyone knows why you're taking this position and why you're refusing to acknowledge/obscuring why this person is relevant here.
That famous lunatic is the most powerful man in the world.
The media isn't attacking the author of the post because the president doesn't give a fuck. It doesn't even feel like the media is actually attacking the creator of the animated .gif besides saying that he's a racist. The media initially saw the .gif as a possible endorsement of any physical attack on the media from the President of the United States. Which has already happened in Montana's special election when the Republican candidate in that election physically attacked a journalist asking him about his investment in Russia.
Then some people found that he got that .gif straight from the_donald, which leads to the media digging up more information about the meme creator being a total piece of shit. Which leads to the media asking if Donald Trump is still consuming a lot of his media from the_donald, which wouldn't be surprising because the_donald is one the few places that completely censors anything remotely negative about Trump.
This isn't any different from the media digging up information that Donald Trump's speech writer might be a huge racist or something similar to these lines. The only difference is one guy deals with speeches and the other guy is dealing in animated gifs. They both introduce the question about the people the president is associating with.
MisterNoisy
Member
What? Elucidate.
The fact that Time Warner is addressing animated gifs at all is what I find hilarious.
Pretty sure they know exactly what they're defending.
Hamster Plugin
Member
The false claim that he's a 15-year-old is some really clever propaganda and shows what a nasty threat Trump supporters are. The only way to prove their claim wrong is for CNN to reveal his identity. And if that happens they get another piece of propaganda to spam.
I would have give you the benefit of believing you were ignorant of what's happening here had a number of posters including myself not already covered why this isn't simply a news network going after someone they felt was a threat to their credibility.
Yep, this is seemingly a really common tactic where the second the soft defense gets challenged they try to alter the topic (IE CNN attacking a 15 year old they feel is a threat) or feign they don't understand something about the conversation despite the answers all being right in the thread they're arguing in. At which point I wonder why you'd even bother if you can't just come out and say it.
Case in point:
sir_kevith
Member
I don't get your interpretation. He said he would apologize and not post. CNN merely contacted them. By your logic the guy called CNN back and asked them to blackmail him.
blame space
Banned
is this really what news is
They added onto the 15 year old layer now. Now he is a 15 year old LGBT
I bet he has to look after his dying mother and his younger brother is in a wheelchair, too.
Crawl back into whatever hole you came from.
Isaac Otherworld
Member
CNN found out who he was as said "hi."
They've discovered all of the SJWs' weaknesses now. They can't get hold you accountable if you're not white or straight. They also can't cross running water or touch silver. And if you bow to a SJW, they bow too, forcing them to spill the vital life fluids they keep in the dish on their heads.
CNN came knocking for a comment and he realized he wasn't hidden behind 900 proxies like he thought he was and suddenly shit himself.
All these racist pieces of shit are the same. Talk big while they hide behind the internet. When they get caught its crying like a bitch about how sorry they are and they meant no harm